What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same.

We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.

When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows.

No amount of thinking can stop thinking.

In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.

The many ways to listen have been reaching into me for years. To enter deep listening, I've had to learn how to keep emptying and opening, how to keep beginning. I've had to lean into all I don't understand, accepting that I am changed by what I hear.

This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.